MANSFIELD, La. — Effective Sept. 15, anyone in this northwest Louisiana town caught wearing sagging pants that expose his or her underwear will be subject to a fine up to $150 plus court costs, or face up to 15 days in jail. Mansfield aldermen Monday voted unanimously and without discussion to enact the law. Mayor Curtis McCoy said he proposed it because he was concerned about the number of individuals who wear pants that expose their underwear. The citizens of Mansfield, he said, should not have to put up with it. City attorney Richard Z. Johnson Jr. said he researched state statutes and borrowed from a similar law adopted in the south Louisiana town of Delcambre as a guideline in creating Mansfield's ordinance. Several municipalities and parish governments in Louisiana have enacted similar laws in recent months. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,293209,00.html This is a good thing when this come to Houston or has City council even talked about this issue.
uh, no. This is just another blatant attempt to take our civil liberties away from us. There is nothing wrong with sagging pants, as there is nothing wrong with hipster jeans. I personally don't see that many people with sagging pants anymore as I did in the mid to late 90's.
I like it. It may help to clean up some of their acts, which is a good things for their lives anyway. Would you hire someone who came in for a job interview sporting a big sag?
Well it depends, I suppose. If the position were with hip hop music production, an interviewee in sagging pants would probably look more qualified than someone in two-piece suit.
Mang, get with the times, even Luda has cleaned up his act. Besides, this represents .000000000000001% of jobs that people interview for. Your point does not stand.
These kinds of laws are very dangerous and while I find people who wear pants that show their underwear to be laughably distasteful - I'd find passing a law regarding fashion sense to be even more distasteful. Afterall, they aren't showing anything more then underwear - what happens when the tool guys come over and bends over and you see his undies - you going to call the cops on him?
My point (as in "it depends") stands as long as there exists a single case in the real world. How has time changed lately? From more "contemporary" to more "traditional?" I guess you must have been living in a vastly different world from mine. It's not like I am a fan of sagging/baggy pants. In fact the opposite is true. However, those "trendy" fashions are something we are facing with, whether we like them or not.
I don't like laws against it, as one would think demand for jobs and income would preclude people from dressing and acting in a manner that is completely and utterly opposite from what is required to succeed in corporate America. Its sad but the entire hip/hop culture, dress, speech and the sort have only two aspirations: sports and entertainment. The percentage chance of prolongued success in these fields is virtually 0. So out of the millions attempting to suceed in these industries only a handful make it and the rest have leveraged and mortgaged their energy, time and youth and then have no skills to provide for themselves. This trend seems to be increasing exponentially as people live that 'lottery' lifestyle. We had the Ex Secretary of Education in a lunch meeting today and he made a lot of valid points regarding education and that the culture towards education needs to change. People need to feel proud of working as a professional and working a normal job. They must take pride in their education and not some gaudy necklace or wheels.
There's a time and a place for everything. I think this can be curbed at the school and workplace level with dress code enforcement. But if someone is outside of places that enforce a dress code, who cares?
I would kick them out if they were in my class. I would have a strict no ass crack policy. My wife taught high school for many years and complained about the number of ass cracks she had to witness on a daily basis while trying to teach.
given some other stories you've posted, sounds like she never wanted to be there. which is fine, sometimes it takes the experience to learn what we want.
